Finally planting the Walkway 🌱

Hello friends! So today I am planting the ground cover in between the stepping stones of the path that I built last fall and I started the ground cover early in the spring thinking I'm going to plant it in like late spring but work got busy then we had these heat waves one after another and I was really afraid that they're not going to make it so I just planted them in the vegetable garden and they look really really healthy right now but our weather is finally cooling off so I am going to finish this project. I actually planted a few of the thyme and the Irish moss it looks so good. Anyway I am going to transfer them from the vegetable garden to their permanent location. So basically what I'm doing here is planting up this walkway with a diversity of ground cover. I originally thought that I would plant up one part of the walkway with one ground cover another one with another and so on but I think diversity is better because I just don't know how these plants are going to behave because this is a kind of an interesting site light-wise also soil-wise so some of them may take off in certain spots and some may fail so we'll see together but basically what I have here is Corsican mint, Irish moss, thyme and remember when I started another ground cover which is Kenilworth ivy it's not a great candidate honestly for like a steppable they are definitely a lot taller I mean it could be done I guess but it's more of a trailing plant for me and I use it in a window box it was kind of pretty so that one I'm going to set aside but it was just interesting to see how that plant behaves so I already planted up most of the Irish moss and thyme all of the smaller gaps will be filled with Corsican mint so I'm going to go get some in the vegetable garden. I didn't expect just how satisfying it will be getting this Corsican mint and dividing it and planting it up I call it the mining of Corsican mint they have a pretty thin root system kind of surface root system like look at that but you can easily divide it in smaller pieces if you want to tuck in between the stepping stones how cool and the smell is amazing and they actually all bloomed earlier this year and now they're blooming again for comparison I want to show you how I dig up the Irish moss they definitely have more of a like a distinct single plant so again remember I started these from seed then I put them in a two inch pot and I planted them here temporarily and this is how much it has grown surprisingly Irish moss has a pretty deep root system and let me show you the thyme as well this is thyme and this one is a little tricky because there is kind of drip irrigation in the middle of everything so we have to just rip that apart here this one's spread a lot over the summer there you go so this one not bad root system Irish moss definitely seems to have the deeper one and there's my crop of ground covers so the planting because they do have different root systems I dig a deeper hole for the Irish moss to accommodate it so the sand that you see here is the paver base for these stepping stones so they don't shift I actually find that a lot of plants appreciate that kind of drainage there's a lot of soil level right in between the stones so when these ground covers start to spread they have somewhere to go now the Corsican mint being the thinnest root system I just disturb the soil a tiny bit just like that and just plop the plant on top and press it it's surprisingly resilient and easy to plant and then this guy I'm gonna plant right here I don't want this ground cover to be too low I want it to be flush with the stones so as I'm walking it's not like if I step on this it will be like a divot okay so I'm done planting and they are looking a little rough right now which is to be expected I took them out of their home for the summer and now they're just adjusting to their new space also it's gotten warm again I'm trying to water them a couple times a day to make sure that they really they're very resilient I'm actually really glad that I took my time planting these because this walkway was just full of weeds in the beginning of the summer and I had to weed it like four times and it was so important because can you imagine having the weeds and then the ground cover and would have been just like a total mess but right now I'm I got almost like 90 percent of weeds so the ground covers will take over and it will look so beautiful and lush I love how the sun is falling down on this right now so yeah it's going to take some time for them to fill in but once they do it will be this beautiful woodland walkway kind of like mossy looking anyway I hope you guys enjoyed watching this process and this project and I'll keep you updated thank you so much for watching this video and I will see you in the next one